English translation of the Dutch article:
| Poesie Noire: Gioconda Smile |
| The new "pet" of Antler is called
Poesie Noire and releases after just six months of existence there second record. After the single "The Noble Art", which was full of productional faults, is the mini album "The Gioconda Smile" a confirmation of the good points on the Noble Art single. Poesie Noire created their own sound, a combination of a rhythm box, percussion, trumpet and bassguitar which creates a very rhythmic kinda popmusic like"Anne Clark", "Lavvi Ebel" and sometimes even Afro-wave. It's not easy to put a label on Poesie Noire cause the spectrum of the music on Gioconda Smile is too wide. Let's say... intrigueable pop with anethereal touch given by producer Roland Beelen. I can also mention that Fad Gadget is not far away sometimes. "Schmerz", an intimistic song sung by female leadvocals is one of the reasons why you should buy this album. And when you know that you can hear this song on the other side again with instruments then you can't go wrong with this record. "And even when I close my eyes, it remains the same...." A very good minialbum which will definitely jump to the top of the charts. Dirk Hermans |
by Patrik Kruse & David Hulet, translation by Jürgen Vanvlasselaer. |
15/01/2000 |